Events / STOQ 2007 International Conference /
PROGRAM
Thursday, November 15 th
Morning Session
Introductory Addresses
Chairman: P. Pedro Barrajón
09.00 Pedro Barrajón (Rector of the Pontifical Athenaeum ‘ Regina Apostolorum', Roma):
Welcome Address
09.30 Card. Paul Poupard (PCC):
Introductory Speech
10.00 Mons. Elio Sgreccia (Pontifical Academy for Life):
Opening Lecture
10.45 Vincenzo Cappelletti (Italian Society of the History of Science, Roma):
Historical Introduction
11.30 Coffee Break
SECTION A: BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Morning Session
12.00 Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA):
The State of the Art of Developmental Biology: Communication and Emergence
Afternoon Session
Chairman: Prof. Saverio Forestiero
(Biologist, School of Sciences, University of Tor Vergata, Roma)
15.30 Alessandro Minelli (University of Padova):
Evodevo Today
16.10 William Hurlbut (Stanford University, Stanford, CA):
Human Development in the Light of Synthetic and Systemic Biology
16.50 Coffee Break
17.20 Mónica López Barahona (Director of VidaCord Company, Madrid):
The Genetic Status of Human Embryo
18.00 Pietro Ramellini (Pontifical Athenaeum 'Regina Apostolorum' , Roma):
On the Concept of Genesis in Biology
18.40 Discussion
Friday, November 16 th
Morning Session
SECTION B: BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS
Chairman: P. Marc Leclerc (Pontifical Gregorian University)
9.00 Giuseppe Noia (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma):
Physiological and Pathological Aspects of the Mother-foetus Interactions
9.40 Matthew H. Kaufman M. H. (University of Edimburgh, UK):
The Embryology of Conjoined Twins
10.20 Carlo Valerio Bellieni (University of Siena):
Fertilisation Environment: Long-term Consequences
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Ingolf Schmid-Tannwald (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich , Germany):
The integration of the biological and the social reality of man in a system model
12.10 Discussion
Afternoon Session
SECTION C: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Chairman: Don Mauro Mantovani (Dean, School of Philosophy , Pontifical Salesian University )
15.30 José Antonio Izquierdo Labeaga (Pontifical Athenaeum 'Regina Apostolorum', Roma):
The Concept of Embryo in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas and the Question of Ensoulment
16.10 Ramón Lucas Lucas (Pontifical Gregorian University, Roma):
The Anthropological Question: Is the Embryo a Human Personal Entity?
16.50 Coffee Break
17.20 Paul O'Callaghan (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Roma):
Souls and Embryos
18.00 Mons. Willem Jacobus Eijk (Bishop, Groningen- Leeuwarden):
Theological Moral Questions on Ontogenesis
18.40 Discussion
Saturday, November 17 th
Morning Session
SECTION D: BIOETHICAL AND JURIDICAL ASPECTS
Chairman: P. Fernando Fabó (Dean of the School of Bioethics )
9.00 Gonzalo Miranda (Pontifical Athenaeum ‘ Regina Apostolorum', Roma):
The Bioethical Debate about Human Embryos
9.40 Alicja Grzeskowiak (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland):
Juridical Aspects of the Embryo Debate
10.20 Laura Palazzani (LUMSA University, Rome):
The Biojuridical Debate about the Status of Human Embryo
11.00 Coffee Break
11.20 Carlo Casini (Member of European Parliament):
Human Embryo in European Law
12.00 Patricio Ventura-Juncá (Catholic University of Chile):
The Morning-after Pill, Ethical, Scientific and Juridical Questions
12.40 Conclusive Panel: Pietro Ramellini, Laura Palazzani , Carlo Casini, Gonzalo Miranda
